Chapter 18: The Insider
After all, she is also tasked with spying on the surrounding intelligence, especially the Second Crusade operation, which is the case with the many documents in the box. But to Grana's distress www.biquge.info she suffered the same feelings as Clausewitz hundreds of years later: "Most of the information is false." So when Jocelan offered to tell her the inside story of the Crusades in the capacity of a "well-known man", Granay did not refuse, but gave the old knight a money bag, "These are enough to buy a beautiful silk cloak at the bazaar of Adana, where it is much cheaper than that of the Apennines." ”
"I think the most beautiful silk is your skin, madame." Joserland was still brazen.
"My husband is the chief of the Seleucian Ordnance Division, and he is a wealthy man of great status, and you should learn true respect for a lady before he shoots you in the head with a red-hot iron bar."
Jocelan laughed, raised his hands in obedience, and then turned and whispered to the endless camps on the shore and on the outskirts of the city, "In fact, His Royal Highness Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine, was forced to go east, because the excommunication given to him by the Holy See had not yet been lifted, and he had to be in the Holy Land to atone for his sins. ”
"Oh, I heard that it was because he was trying to annex Toulouse and Provence without armed force?" Granaai said that this information was already under control.
It turned out that the Lord Raymond was originally only the Count of Saint-Gilles, and William IV, Count of Toulouse, was his brother (he was also the Duke of Narbon and Provence), and eleven years ago the Count of William (not the one who sold the gold) went to the Holy Land for the Hajj, but there was no legitimate son to supervise the territory for him, because William's two sons died at a young age, and only a daughter named Philippa had to entrust the territory to Raymond.
William IV spent five years in the Holy Land and died, so Raymond was in a wonderful position: Provence had no precedent for his daughter to inherit the land, so that his brother William's inheritance could be inherited by Raymond.
However, Philippa was the second wife of Guillaume, Duke of Aquitaine, and Guillaume soon made a "claim" to Toulouse and Provence as the son-in-law of the dead ghost William - Raymond, who was a little weak-hearted, took the initiative to be the first to run to Le Mans and became the vanguard of the crusade, and called on the lords and knights of Toulouse, Provence and Saint-Gilles to join the army, ready to fight for moral dominance with the merit of "recovering the holy city", and in the future justifiably get his brother's inheritance.
As soon as Raymond left, Guillaume ignored it and directly invaded the Toulouse region with his army, which provoked the Pope's anger, "Loyal and brave soldiers of the Eastern Crusade, how can you allow a young man like you to stab a knife in the back and pick peaches?" "The order was given directly to Guillaume to break the goal.
Frightened, Guillaume immediately bid farewell to his court of Aquitaine, which was full of male and female ****, and the beautiful and winding Garonne River, came to the city of Rome to receive the cross in front of the dying Urban couch and repented bitterly, and then arrived in the city of Bari non-stop to prepare to cross the sea, and countless pilgrims from Aquitaine, France and other places who followed him along the way.
"I mean, if Guillaume could get to the shores of the Levant, it would be a great deal of excitement with that Raymond." Joselan raised his finger and said, "This is his valuable analysis, "After crossing the city of Bari, this group of men and horses should have passed through Thessaly, where they may have joined Stephen, Count of Blois, and Robert, Count of Normandy, who were stranded there, and then crossed the sea from Constantinople, and probably then marched along Seleucia and Cilicia, because Vallo, the general counsellor of the French royal palace, who joined the army, tried to find out the truth about Hugh's murder, and even oppressed your master Gawain by force. ”
"The Count of Blois is so afraid of his wife?" Granay cleverly digressed the subject.
"The old man is afraid of a young wife, and he is a wise saying. So I also need a young and beautiful wife, as virtuous and strong as you, Madame, to harness my bohemian horse. Joselan replied that Count Stephen had fled back to Constantinople before the Battle of Antioch, and had been denounced by a letter from his wife, Adella, so frightened that he could only stay where he was, and did not dare to go back, waiting for the arrival of the second wave of pilgrims, in order to atone for his sins.
"What about the other pilgrims, then?"
"The second way is mostly Germans, this part of the population may be 80,000 men, including many military escorts, the leader is none other than Henry Caesar's (Henry IV) court generalissimo Conrad, their goal is to support the Greek Emperor Komnenos, to run to Henry's canonized puppet pope to receive the cross, but also to gain prestige capital in the crusade, continue to fight against the Holy See of the Holy See. The route of this road should have followed Hungary and Bulgaria to Constantinople. ”
"It's going to be hilarious." The female physician continued to smile, unfazed.
"The third way, probably the latest, is that they are all anti-Henry, and that the mastermind behind them is Matilda, Duchess of Tuscany, and this powerful woman forces her young husband Ulf to be the leader—I am wrong about what I said to you, and sometimes the young husband is afraid of his old wife—and Ida, the Austrian Countess, is also the least numerous, about forty or fifty thousand men, and the army is insufficient. As for the route, I think Matilda has always had a great friendship with your master, and she will let her little husband go ashore directly from Smyrna, and go through the mountains of Laudisia and Venegia to your master's land......"
When Joceland had finished speaking, the sails of the ship rose and swollen, and the oars began to pluck the blue waves along the sides of the ship's side with the sound of the trumpet, and the shore of the city of Barry began to move away. Grana's original confused information was thus sorted out smoothly by Joselan, and she suddenly felt that the sea style in her face was refreshing, and she quietly gave the old knight a money bag, "Inside is a full gold coin, enough for you to buy Cappadocia horses and a full set of armaments, as well as your brother's." ”
Over there, Jocelan's brother, Garilland, sat on the deck with a dull face holding the hilt of his sword, deaf to their secret conversations.
"Captain, I need a cabin, next to this lady, and tonight I want to fold a delicate rose." Whoever wanted Joselan to turn his face and carry the money bag, shouted to the bow of the ship.
"If you want to come, you can come, but all the cabins around me have been rented by me for my group of attendants to live in, and their martial arts are not inferior to yours." Granaai turned around her skirt and walked away, and several of Kongwu's attendants beside her all looked back at Joselan, and also left one after another, "And the situation of this group of pilgrims will inevitably be more lively in the future than playing Zeno chess, but if you go to Adana, your Excellency Joselan, you fish that are about to move, will also muddy the waters." ”
"Look at what you said, I will always love my cousin, Earl Burke, and I will always love my suzerain-lord relatives, Lord Godfrey and Earl Baldwin. I will always be loyal to them! Josseran was behind the female physician, a loud voice of determination. (To be continued.) )